Sean (Kerr Smith) is taking a week off to go to his sister's wedding. To help pay, he gets a job delivering a vintage Mercedes. In the desert, he reluctantly pick up hitchhiker Nick (Brendan Fehr) who turns out to be hunting vampire Kit (Johnathon Schaech).

As a vampire story, this is perfectly fine. Schaech is certainly a very creepy guy. Izabella Miko is super hot. Smith and Fehr are good TV stars. It's a functional horror movie. There are good number of explosions, but not excitingly shot. There is a good amount of blood, but it's not scary.

If there is a problem, it's that it's not big enough to be outstanding. It's not gory enough for the gross out fans. It's not exciting enough for the action fans. And it's not scary for any horror fans. It's a bit of all of them and excel in none of them.

The similarities between this one and a movie by John Carpenter are more than apparent (as other users have stated here too). John Carpenters movie is much better (and even that wasn't a milestone). Maybe with the new vampire craze right now, this would have been successful and I don't think that it must hide between some of the Twilight moments (especially during the second part of the series).

But as it is, this just isn't really good. The action might be the best on hand here, but the characters, the dialogue, the story overall are just that bad, that you are actually wasting your time. There is one scene, that is the most insane ever. (only real spoiler ahead, concerning one scene) A human is playing chicken with a vampire ... and the vampire steers his car away ... Really? Like really? If you still think you don't mind complete madness like that being in the movie, than go ahead and watch

While driving a delivery car across desolate desert badlands backroads self-absorbed twentysomething slacker Sean (amiable Kerr Smith) winds up running into both scruffy vampire hunter Nick (an excellent, charismatically ragtag turn by Brendan Fehr) and a deadly bunch of age-old itinerant bloodsuckers led by the smoothly malevolent Kit (the terrific Jonathan Schaech, who's wonderfully wicked in a juicy full-blown nasty villain part). Opening with the arresting image of beautiful blonde babe Izabella Miko washing blood off her bare breasts in the shower, culminating with an exciting explosive climax, with a handy helping of graphic gore, raucous roaring rock music and rousing vehicular action sandwiched in between, this delightfully down'n'dirty low-budget Grade B exploitation horror flick sizes up as a tasty trashy treat. Writer/director J.S. ("The Slayer," "Shadowzone") Cardone elicits sound performances from the entire cast (veteran late, great character actress Carrie Snodgress in particular contributes a lively last reel cameo as a feisty old battle axe),keeps the unflagging pace fast'n'furious throughout, and, most importantly, delivers the unapologetically lowdown sleazy goods with a winning dearth of pretense and a hugely satisfying surplus of rip-snorting panache.

Moreover, there's a marvelously positive and optimistic statement about the redemption of Generation X in this movie: Sean starts out as strictly interested in achieving his own immediate goals in life, but by meeting Nick and joining forces with him to fight the vampires he overcomes his initial selfishness and thus redeems himself in the process. Cardone persuasively makes the point that the allegedly "lost" and hopeless Generation X has a latent capacity to amount to something; all they need is the right stimulus to spark them into action. Since I'm often perceived as a member of this "lost" generation, I found this message to be both very refreshing and extremely heartening. It's nice to know that there are a few filmmakers out there like Mr. Cardone who haven't totally written us off as a lost cause. A splendidly scuzzy and snappy dilly that's one of my favorite fright features of the early 21st century which even comes complete with some pertinent social commentary about modern youth.